Constituting the Political Economy of the Kurds

This book examines the development of Kurdish political economy and the emergence of collective Kurdish identity within a historical context through three main periods: the late- Ottoman Empire, the initial Republican Turkey era and then the post-1990s period.

Autorentext
** Omer Tekdemir* is Lecturer in Political Economy at Coventry University London. He is a co-editor of the open-access journal, New Middle Eastern Studies*, and the co-convener of International Studies of the Mediterranean, Middle East and Asia working group of the British International Studies Association (BISA).

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Methodology within the Kurdish Narrative 2. The Political Economy Origins of Kurds in the Ottoman Empire 3. Kurdish ****Moral Economy: Historical Perspectives on Embeddedness 4. Counter-Hegemonic Society in the Republic of Turkey 5. Passive Revolution: Constructing Institutional Politics 6. National Identity: Many Kurds in Agonistic Pluralism 7. Articulating an Alternative Discourse in the EU-ised Sphere 8. A Kurdish Model: Embeddedness, Radical Democracy and Populism